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> 怒らない。。。の?

And his answer:

> 何言ってるんだ. 何日も懸命に頑張ってくれたのに。。。

> 感謝することはあっても

> 怒る理由がない

I understand the answer is akin "What are you saying? You did your best for us
for so many days."

However I struggled to place 感謝することはあっても. Obviously 怒る理由がない is "So there is no
reason for me to get mad at you" but how does 感謝することはあっても work?

"Even if there is a reason to be thankful, I'm not mad at you" doesn't make
sense.


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translation て-form sentence particle-も
How is ことはあっても used in this sentence?


That is the same as the following question:

[How does ことはあっても connect this otherwise 2 part sentence into
one?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/76344/45489)

I'm not sure what exactly makes it difficult to understand, but if the
translation you got (which I think is reasonably correct) does not make sense,
forget _if_ and remember
[も](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E3%82%82/#jn-218351) is just 逆接=but.

So a literal translation is _I could be thankful, but there is no reason to
get mad_. If this is still odd, just use _and_ instead of _but_ (which does
not change the meaning logically).

As a pattern, AすることはあってもB(することは)ない means _A could happen, but B can't_. The
emphasis is that B won't happen.

In the context, the first speaker A thinks they let down the second speaker in
some way. Then the second speaker is saying, they could thank A for the
efforts all the same and there is no reason to get mad at A.


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You are not alone in being puzzled by this expression. Superficially, it looks
like it should be 逆説, adversative, the two sentences joined with 'but', and
the second sentence expressing some contrast or contradiction of the first.

We have two sentences,

感謝することはある

怒る理由がない

If we were to join these by sense, we would expect the like of

感謝することはあれば、怒る理由がない 'If [I] sometimes do apologize, there is no reason to get
angry.'

quite differently from how it is in fact written.

In the normal case, ーても expresses a concession or contrast:

たとえ君が忠告しても止めないだろう 'Even if you cautioned [him], [he] wouldn't stop.'

But often, it can be read ambiguously or the sense of concession or contrast
is muted, and the usage seems to amount to the same as ーては:

このことはヨウロッパの歴史を見ても明らかである 'This fact is clear if/(?)even if you look at the
history of Europe.'

あの旅館は急に行っても泊まれないらしい '...if/(?)even if you go there straight away...'

お茶を飲んでも今夜は眠れますか 'If/(?)even if you drink tea, won't you be able to sleep
tonight?'

Your example sentence is like this, the contrast/concessional meaning of ーても
is attenuated, and it makes more sense (to non-natives) to think of it as ーては.

And this calls to mind a classical japanese/literary usage, using the 已然形 form
of the verb (roughly, remove ば from the provisional) after こそ:

言うことこそ違え、考えは同じだ 'What is said differs, but the idea is the same.'

Again, in the normal case, there is an adversative (逆説) connection between the
conjoined sentences. But there are uses of this construction where there is no
hint of contrast, seeming to simply be 順接, and it especially seems to occur
with the structure V-i koso sure:

恨まれこそすれ、そう笑顔を向けられるような存在じゃないはずですが。

(A wealth of examples can be found at
[yourei.jp](https://yourei.jp/%E3%81%93%E3%81%9D%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B))

According to [kotobank](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%81%93%E3%81%9D-501939)
there are very few examples, in classical Japanese, of its use, like this, to
express a 順接 relation.


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